Wonoka in the Flinders Ranges. A view of the ranges behind this ghost town. The railway reached here in 1882 and the town was established in 1880. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Wonoka in the Flinders Ranges. A view of the ranges behind this ghost town. The railway reached here in 1882 and the town was established in 1880. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Pastoral leases were taken up on the flats between the Flinders Ranges and Lake Torrens in the 1850s. Sir Thomas Elder took out Beltana run in 1862. A major drought occurred in 1864 but he was were not deterred. In the mid-1870s high rainfall seasons and a huge demand for new farming lands led the government to unwisely survey farming lands in the Flinders Ranges across the Willochra Plains to Hawker and beyond to Wonoka. Around the same time several Counties and Hundreds were surveyed and declared open for settlement. The most northerly County in SA was Taunton declared in 1877 consisting of six Hundreds including Nilpena and Parachilna which were declared in 1881. It covered the region from Parachilna across into the Flinders Ranges and along the railway route to Leigh Creek. Other Hundreds included Carr in 1877 which was were centred on Blinman. Despite the County declaration little land was ever surveyed in Taunton or Carr except for the railway route and small towns at Parachilna, Beltana, Leigh Creek and Lyndhurst. These were all on the railway to Farina and the Overland telegraph route to Darwin. Wonoka. The first pastoral lease was taken out here in 1851 by John McKinlay and named Wonoka station. The Hundred of Wonoka was declared in 1877 and with the coming of the Farina railway a small town was surveyed and opened up for sale in 1880. In the same year the foundation stone of a Wesleyan Methodist church was laid (opened Nov 1881) and a postal service began. The railway reached the town in May 1882 and the station was called Hookina Station! The town emerged with the government school opening in 1887 with 26 pupils. Some optimistic farmers were growing wheat crops in 1880 as sales of farms began in May 1880. The 1881 census recorded 73 residents in the Wonoka district. By 1884 the government was getting no takers for land sales but the Wonoka Hotel was licensed in that year. By May 1885 some land acreages were being surrendered. With successive droughts and the low average rainfall wheat growers failed to make a living. But the town was useful as a stopping place and transport centre for travellers and it was near Hawker. A substantial railway station was built but it is in ruins today. The grasshopper plaque of 1888 convinced many farmers to walk off their lands. The Wesleyan church appears to have closed around 1890 but the Wonoka Hotel traded until 1949. The school closed in 1922 and the town disappeared except for some rubble, the cemetery and the remains of the railway barracks and hotel etc. Nearby by and further west along Wonoka Creek was the earlier settlement of Hookina founded in 1863 as a staging point on the route to Blinman copper mines. The Hookina-Wonoka area had a Catholic Church from 1885 to 1960 and school from 1885 to 1923. |
| 撮影日 | 2020-07-10 15:20:54 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.0 |